From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Kay Sievers Date: Fri, 17 Dec 2004 13:47:36 +0000 Subject: Re: Bug#286040: please allow permissions.d to follow symlinks Message-Id: <1103291256.14134.202.camel@localhost.localdomain> List-Id: References: <20041217083115.GA4050@wonderland.linux.it> In-Reply-To: <20041217083115.GA4050@wonderland.linux.it> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org On Fri, 2004-12-17 at 14:40 +0100, Marco d'Itri wrote: > On Dec 17, Kay Sievers wrote: > > > Why you guys always want to make things more complicated as needed? > Correctly handling permissions of symlinked nodes is consistency, not > complexity. > There is no reason to change the link owner or permissions, so it should > be obvious that it's the linked file which should be changed. So, where do we change the owner of a symlink? I will fix this! Kay ------------------------------------------------------- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest & candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. http://productguide.itmanagersjournal.com/ _______________________________________________ Linux-hotplug-devel mailing list http://linux-hotplug.sourceforge.net Linux-hotplug-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-hotplug-devel